... 125, 1997 Gareth Hunt and H. E. Payne, eds. Real Time Science Displays for the Proportional Counter Array Experiment on the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer A. B. Giles1 Code 662, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 E-mail: barry@rosserv.gsfc.nasa.gov Abstract. The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE ) spacecraft contains a large Prop ortional Counter Array (PCA) exp eriment which produces high count rates for many X-ray sources. ... PCA Science Monitoring Requirements. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based telescope control program based on INDI, the Instrument-Neutral Distributed Interface. ... See the files LICENSE and COPYRIGHT for the details. ... About Epoch ----------- XmTel assumes that the telescope is set to "Epoch of Date", which means that it is using ideal celestial coordinates precisely aligned today. ... XmTel assumes that target coordinates entered from the keyboard are in the Epoch that the telescope coordinates are currently displayed in. ...

... Intro to HST Data Handbooks 8.0 May 2011 . ... Introduction to the HST Data Handbooks > Chapter 3: Analyzing HST Data > 3.1 Analysis Options for HST Data . ... Analysis Options for HST Data . 3.1.1 IRAF/STSDAS . 3.1.2 PyRAF . 3.1.3 Python . ... STSDAS is an IRAF package developed by STScI for the reduction and analysis of HST data. ... Since PyRAF is so highly compatible with the IRAF CL, virtually all of the examples shown in this handbook will work the same for PyRAF . ...

Describes how funtools can be integrated into the ds9 Analysis menu. SAOImage/DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application used by astronomers around the world. DS9 can display standard astronomical FITS images and binary tables, but also has support for displaying raw array files, shared memory files, and data files automatically retrieved via FTP and HTTP. ... It can be manually loaded into DS9 from the Load Analysis Commands ... option of the Analysis menu. ...

CIMA is more than just the observing tool - in fact, the observing tool is just a part of a bigger package called the CIMA software package. ... There is also a another package called the CIMA WAPP software which contains the WAPP software, the special Tcl/Tk interpreter used by CIMA and support libraries. ... All CIMA software components recognize the following general options that are part of the CIMA version selection system: . ... The select_cima script can be used to set up a default version. ...

Next: STScI NICMOS Software Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: Some Experiments with the . ... Programs Available . ... Display . ... E. Stobie, D. Lytle, I. Barg, and A. Ferro NICMOS Project, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, E-mail: bstobie@as.arizona.edu . The NICMOS Software Group at the University of Arizona has built a number of software tools for processing NICMOS data. ... NICMOS, PSF subtraction, image registration, image deconvolution, polarimetry data reduction . ...

... Back to the Live Radiation Monitor Data The radiation monitor on board XMM-Newton registers the total count rate and basic spectral information on the background radiation impinging on the spacecraft and its scientific instruments. ... Counting of pulses for a selected energy band and above the low thresholds. ... Sensitivity: due to the electronic threshold, actually only electrons with energy greater than 130 keV and protons greater than 1.3 MeV can be measured by this unit. ...

Distributed Software for Observations in Near Infrared V. Gavryusev 1 and C. Baffa Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri E. Giani Dipartamento di Astronomia, Universit`a di Firenze Abstract. ... The processes denoted for control of hardware (telescope and other instruments) should be executed currently on PC dedicated for this task under DESQview/X, while all other components (user interface, tools for the data analysis, etc.) can work also under Unix. ... 1993, Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ...

... User Guide ] Task: tvflag Purpose: Interactive editing of a UV data set on a TV device. ... The user should make sure, if the display device is capable of creating menus that the menu program has been loaded ``before'' running this routine (eg. xpanel for the XMTV) - see the User's Guide or Cookbook under TV Devices for details. ... The user may edit the data in one of two ways: 1) By e